This is a site where I will post reviews of CDs, DVDs, LPs, and concerts. I have been writing music reviews on and off for the last 27 years. I ran a heavy metal fanzine from 1984-1988 called Metal Madness and have been a staff writer for Aural Innovations for many years. I have also contributed to Chrohinga Well (RIP), Bad Acid (RIP), Lowcut (RIP), Roadburn and a number of other zines as well.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Electric Taurus- Vereralia (Moonlight Records)

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is a new Italian trio playing heavy rock with a great groove. The CD starts off
with Mountains. The guitar player and singer, Matt, has a gruff voice but it
fits well with the music. Mountains is pretty hard hitting but it has it
melodic parts as well including acoustic guitar but no guitar so. A New Moon is
a longer track at nearly 7 mins with a good starting groove and quite a few
interesting changes and a melodic solo in the middle before heading back into
the main riffs that drive the song. Mescalina, is a 11½ min track and like it’s
title is suggests is pretty psychedelic and sees the band experimenting a lot
more which is really cool. It starts slowly with some guitar delays, effects,
spacey sounds and vocals. At 4mins the really cool stoner rock like riff and
groove kicks in.. Later it takes a totally different direction with an almost
reggae like guitar riff and nice bass solo! A very adventurous track. Two Gods
is a more heavy track with a cool slower groove section that I really like. A
short guitar solo is played in the middle as well with some nice bass playing
to back it up (more impressive than the solo). Prelude to the Madness is a very
cool track with a DOOM like riff and then it goes into this super cool section
that is really melodic and catchy and really catches you off guard but I like
it a lot. The middle section is really psyched out. The CD ends with magic Eye.
It begins with a wah guitar and slow building riff but develops into a cool track.. Check these guys out on bandcamp....

About Me

I am a research scientist doing Diabetes research and I do music journalism on the side and have been writing about music for 28 years now. I also lead an all improvised psychedelic space rock band called the Øresund Space Collective. I also am an avid collector of music.